because Herod was afraid of John. He knew that John was a righteous and holy man, and so he protected him. Whenever he listened to John, he did much of what he said. In fact, he liked listening to him.

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets did you fill with leftover pieces?" They told him, "Twelve."

"When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets did you fill with the leftover pieces?" They told him, "Seven."

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.

The spirit screamed, shook the child violently, and came out. The boy was like a corpse, and many said that he was dead.

because he was teaching his disciples, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into human hands. They will kill him, but after being dead for three days he will be raised."

"What did Moses command you?" he responded.

because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

Then the second married her and died without having children, and so did the third.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today, this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you'll deny me three times."

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he let Joseph have the corpse.

But because you did not believe my announcement, which will be fulfilled at its proper time, you will become silent and unable to speak until the day this happens."

But when he did come out, he was unable to speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them but remained unable to speak.

"This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace."

Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David.

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching desperately for him.

But they did not understand what he told them.

he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you've heard it read aloud."

So he told them, "You will probably quote this proverb to me, "Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

Amazement seized all the people, and they began to praise God. They were filled with fear and declared, "We have seen wonderful things today!"

Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions became hungry?

He looked around at all of them and then told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man did so, and his hand was restored to health.

The man who had been dead sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

So he answered them, "Go and tell John what you have observed and heard: the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear again, the dead are raised, and the destitute hear the good news.

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to ask the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Really, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look! Those who wear fine clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

Really, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet!

Jesus continued, "To what may I compare the people living today?

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and told him, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."

Now everyone was crying and wailing for her. But Jesus said, "Stop crying! She's not dead. She's sleeping."

They laughed and laughed at him, because they knew she was dead.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening. He was puzzled because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,

They did this and got all of them seated.

But he told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

After careful consideration, Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of bandits. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

He said, "The one who showed mercy to him." Jesus told him, "Go and do what he did."

Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say, "This people living today are an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah,

The queen of the south will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look, something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look, something greater than Jonah is here!"

so those living today will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

Now if that's the way God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and thrown into an oven tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you you who have little faith?

But the servant who did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating. Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted."

He told them, "Go and tell that fox, "Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work.

But I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it's not possible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.'

Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.'"

"But the rich man replied, "No, father Abraham! But if someone from the dead went to them, they would repent.'

"Then Abraham told him, "If your brothers do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if someone were to rise from the dead.'"

But first he must suffer a great deal and be rejected by those living today.

When Jesus came to the tree, he looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down! I must stay at your house today."

Then Jesus told him, "Today salvation has come to this home, because this man is also a descendant of Abraham,

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

"If you had only known today what could have brought you peace! But now it is hidden from your sight,

but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him."

He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant sealed by my blood, which is being poured out for you.

But Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know me."

Then Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing at all."

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. And Peter remembered the word from the Lord, and how he had told him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

But what they said seemed nonsense to them, so they did not believe them.

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

When they had found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

So they asked him, "How, then, did you gain your eyesight?"

The Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and had gained sight until they summoned his parents

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,